Firm： Projet Paysage

Type： Landscape + Planning › Public Park Urban Green Space

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2023

SIZE： 100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET： $1M - 5M

The Rosemont Park is a true example of modern urban design and planning with its innovative technologies and installations fostering social and ecological care. The park was organized in three distinct yet connected areas: The Plaza, The Glade, and The Urban Woodland. With its multifaceted purpose, the park serves as a communal space for leisure and a serene retreat for city dwellers.

The Plaza, with its bespoke urban furniture and refreshing mist fountain, offers a meeting place for neighbouring communities throughout the year. With its clover cover, The Glade offers a wide-open and circular area contrasting with the park’s densely built residential neighbourhood. The ideal space for discoveries and physical activity. Projet Paysage integrated a playground built from wood to encourage imagination and creativity by requiring children to trace their own journey through the installations. Finally, The Urban Woodland — a microforest inspired by the Miyawaky method — brings resilient canopy to this peaceful oasis, thus enriching the biodiversity. The forest was created by planting hundreds of trees — various species including fruit trees and honey plants — and preserving the park’s older trees, bringing the total number of trees to over 550.

Instrumental to the design is the sponge park concept, making the entire area — including the marked paths — permeable to rainwater. Creating a climate change resilient space. This was achieved through different design elements, including a dry river to help direct runaway water as well as using Solecol — a resin bound permeable paving material – to make the trails absorbent. These pathways offer a delicate connection network between the various areas and become ice-skating paths in the winter to optimize the parks use all year long. The firm’s ability to weave functional, aesthetic and technological elements together is what positions Rosemont Park as an innovative green space.